Freno - What to Practice
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- Because he pivots me.
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- I don't wanna make the pivot so big that I lose track
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- of the space between us.
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- So can you show that You want
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- me to show the over pivot as
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- Well? Yeah. Chris, where's the over pivot?
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- I pivoted, but then I've lost us ness.
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- This is the right, it's just a little pivot. It's easy.
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- Then when I step over
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- And pause. So while it's
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- easy, I want you to notice that her hips
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- and her feet are all the way there.
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- And I've made contact with his shin,
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- in this case, with my shin.
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- When I step over, it's just a regular little step,
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- but I make sure they get all the way over
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- the ball of my left foot.
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- And then I just kind of wait.
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- Being aware of the space between us.
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- And as a leader, I think the, the most important thing
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- to pay attention to is that this pivot comes from the hips,
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- um, and from the center
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- or hip center and hips, hips and center.
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- And the thing to be cautious of is
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- to do the pivot like this.
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- Or you know, I imagine an imaginary partner, Hey, you pivot.
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- And then I want to turn her back
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- to me, come back to me, right?
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- That's very much about the upper body.
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- Instead of saying pivot.
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- And then she walks over and I say, and come back to me.
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- And I want you to notice how little movement there is, uh,
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- in, in the upper body
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- or how little movement there has to be.
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- And watch that again.
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- And literally it's this motion in the hips connected
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- through my hands that are creating the pivot.
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- And it's not large, it's a very small motion,
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- but it's enough to be really significant.
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- So that as I'm here, that motion of my hips
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- through my hands is what creates this pivot.
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- And my hips can map to his, to his motion of his hips.
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- And now after she walks over, uh, let's do this angle,
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- uh, after she walks over
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- right here, the, I'm not once again moving my arms a lot.
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- I'm shifting to my right foot and facing her.
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- And once again, notice how calm the arms are.
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- That shift to his right foot that gets me to do
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- that last pivot epitomizes what we think of as the tango.
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- What I think of as the tango magic.
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- Can you do that really slowly? That pivot?
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- Oh, let's do the second.
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- So we're just coming together in the space between us.
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- It's just so wonderfully connected.
